Bret Ingalls Position: Assistant Coach - Tight Ends/Tackles Experience: First Season

Though he enters his first season coaching Miami's tight ends and tackles, Brett Ingalls is the veteran of the RedHawk staff, bringing an extensive and diverse coaching background that includes several stints as an offensive coordinator.

Ingalls, who has been coaching at the college level since 1982, comes to Miami from Indiana State, where he spent the past season coaching the tight ends in an offense that broke the program's single-season passing record.

Prior to arriving at ISU, Ingalls served from 2000-03 as offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Idaho, where he also coached the quarterbacks and running backs for two seasons each. From 2000-02, the Vandals consistently ranked among Division I-AA's top 15 passing offenses and top 30 total offenses. Ingalls coached at Northern Iowa from 1997-99, spending two seasons as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Gateway Conference power, and was at Louisville from 1995-96 in the same roles.

In his only previous stint in the Mid-American Conference, Ingalls spent the 1994 season at Eastern Michigan, where he was hired as offensive line coach. After the seventh game of the season, he was promoted to offensive coordinator, helping the team to a 4-0 record and 36.6 points per game the rest of the way.

From 1989-93, Ingalls spent time as offensive coordinator (1992-93), offensive line coach (1990-92) and running backs coach (1989, 1993) at San Diego State, where he coached All-American Marshall Faulk, who twice led the nation in rushing, and twice placed the Aztecs among the nation's top 15 in total offense. SDSU also competed in the 1991 Freedom Bowl while Ingalls was on staff.

Ingalls' coaching career began at Idaho, where he graduated in 1984. After serving as a student-assistant defensive backs coach from 1982-83, he was assistant offensive line coach from 1984-85 and running backs coach from 1986-88. Idaho won four Big Sky Conference Championships (1982, `85, `87 and `88) during his tenure.

Ingalls played collegiately as a starting running back for Wichita State from 1979-81. Originally from Snohomish, Wash., he was an All-American prep at Snohomish High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball.

Ingalls and his wife, Diana, have two sons, Samuel and Jack, and a daughter, Breana, and reside in Oxford.